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Sunday, August 06, 2006
Kevin McCullough :: Townhall.com Columnist
Why liberals love pedophiles
by Kevin McCullough
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Liberals love pedophiles, because they must do so to keep their own belief system intact.

Consider the bizarre case just this week of thirty-four year old Phillip Distasio.

Distasio runs a "school" called Class Cutters near Cleveland Ohio. The goal of the school is to somehow counter the "No Child Left Behind Act" by getting kids to rush through a few academic excercises each day on the computer - and then to spend the majority of the time performing some sort of "community service." It seems to be set-up to help the child find "productive" use of their time in after school hours. On Distasio's web-site he even makes mention that even kids who attend a traditional school can join the program for the "after school activities."

A disturbing element also seems to be that Distasio seeks parent's involvement in "choosing the curriculum" that their child engages in. They even have a chatroom blog to log into the program with.

What's really horrifying is that Distasio is an admitted pedophile of 20 years who doesn't even have the decency to be ashamed of his craving for sexual activity with boys.

In fact... he embraces it.

Presently Distasio is finding himself facing 74 charges of molestation of boys in his "program." Instead of denying his guilt he's trying a new approach - claiming his sexual intent is a civil right.

In my brand new book MuscleHead Revolution: Overturning Liberalism with Commonsense Thinking I point out how painfully obvious it has become to us all that the clear-headed absolutes of right and wrong and good and evil were thrown out with the modern feminist bathwater of the 1960s. But few of us ever thought it would get to the point that we are now seeing - pedophiles claiming constitutional civil rights protections for their desire to engage in homosexual pedophilia.

So where does Distasio get the boldness to make such ludicrous claims?

How about modern liberalism, academia, and the Clinton administration?

As I document in MuscleHead Revolution, Judith Levine, the academic who released the book, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, argues that it is harmful to protect children from sexual activity. As I point out, she goes so far as to encourage adults to not think prudishly about sexual activity between adults and children. She even advocates for the "rights" of children to be able to "give their consent" for "legal" and "healthy" sexual activity with adults.

One might think that Levine is just a nutcase, except that she was published by the University of Minnesota Press. Her book was endorsed by Dr. Jocelyn Elders who also wrote its forward. Elders was the Clinton era, surgeon general.

Taking his cues from Levine/Elders, Distasio argued in court this week:

"I'm a pedophile. I've been a pedophile for 20 years. The only reason I'm charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry is to get these cases out of the courtrooms." Also adding, "Not all pedophilia is bad, and sex [with boys] can be healthy." Continued...

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Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of "'Xtreme' Radio and columnist based in New York. He blogs at www.muscleheadrevolution.com. His second book "The Kind Of MAN Every Man SHOULD Be" is in stores now.

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unthinkable, for now
Liberals emphatically do not love pedophiles - very far from it, abhorrence of pedophilia is one of the very few firm anchors remaining in liberal sexual morality politics. Thank God.

However, it is by conscience and a remnant of natural human decency, and not by reasoned extension of their principles, that sexual liberalism retains any exception to the ideal that consensual sex deserves full protection as a civil right, regardless of the age or relationship of the individuals.

http://www.ippf.org/ContentController.aspx?ID=7528
International Planned Parenthood recites orthodox liberalism (Goal 3):
"Society must recognize the right of all young people to enjoy sex and to express their sexuality in the way that they choose."

The essential principle shared across a spectrum of sexual liberal politics, is autonomy. Mikhail Bakunin, the Russian anarchist, put it equally radically: “Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of the parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.”

The prohibition against children having sex with adults, if they wish it, belongs to a view of children as weak, dependent, and in need of unequal protection - which is ultimately anathema in light of the ultimate goal of complete equality of every person.

Echoing Kevin's article, with regard to those who think that equality is more fundamental than justice, it is impossible to guess how long conscience and decency can hold out against the logic of "sexual preference".

Pedophiles on both sides of the aisle
Unfortunately, I think we have some pedophiles on both sides of the aisle. Possibly, that is why nothing is done about it. Google "Franklin coverup".

There is also a pre-release copy of a video about this pedophile ring on Google video. It was to be shown on the Discovery channel. It was stopped from release by major pressure from some influential members of Congress. Here is where you can watch the pre-release copy and see what you think:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3395321338401208062&q=franklin%2C+pedophile


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